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CSIS and accusations of Islamophobia

Accusations that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service is Islamophobic do not take into account facts that Canadians have become jihadis.

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When everything is seen as terrorism, nothing is terrorism

Terrorism means many things to many people and we may be heading down an unhelpful pathway.

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Weather Underground bomb plot (June 17, 1974)

On this day in 1974, the leftist Weather Underground bombed the HQ of the Gulf Oil Company in Pittsburgh to protest the firm’s actions in Angola.

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CIA officer killed by a terrorist bomb in Nicosia, Cyprus in a case of mistaken identity (June 16, 1956)

On this day in 1956, a CIA officer posing as a US diplomat was killed by a terrorist bomb in a cafe in Nicosia, Cyprus in a case of mistaken identity.

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Are Canada’s security intelligence and law enforcement agencies biased when it comes to terrorism?

Everyone is free to express their opinion on terrorism but only a former (or current) counter terrorism practitioner can weigh in on investigations.

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Church attack in Central African Republic (May 30, 2014)

Gunmen associated with the Muslim Seleka in Central African Republic massacred at least 11 people who were taking shelter in a church from street fighting.

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Phil in the media

Terrorism in Toronto, the Westgate Shooter & WTF incelosphere?

Canadian intel specialist Phil Gurski, sits down to discuss the incelosphere and the recent decision by to add terrorism to the “incel-motivated” stabbing in Toronto.

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Who decides what is terrorism and what isn’t?

It is still a debatable issue whether ‘incels’ are terrorists or just occasionally violent people, as is what is the best way to detect and stop them.

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The challenges of calling any act of violence ‘terrorism’

The debate over what to call terrorism is an eternal one. Where incels fit in, if they do, will also go on for a while.

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Podcast Quick Hits

Quick Hits: Was the deadly attack at a Toronto erotic spa an act of ‘incel terrorism’?

A youth ‘incel’ in Toronto has been charged with terrorism for the killing of a woman at an erotic spa back in February. Is this the right charge? Is incel terrorism?